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• Elements Negligence
– Existence of a legal duty to protect others from
harm
– Failure to perform that duty required by law
– Damage or injury to the claimant
– A proximate cause relationship between the
negligent act and the infliction of damages,
which requires an unbroken chain of events
• A cause unbroken by any new and independent cause,
which produces an event that otherwise would not have
occurred.